in relation to: indexation of the ceiling rate of income support supplement and service pension; backdating claims for income support supplement for certain war widows and widowers; and family situation rules applicable to income support supplement recipients.

in relation to: treatment of periodic compensation payments and recovery of compensation debts from payers and insurers; treatment of unrealisable financial assets for the purposes of the assets test hardship provisions and income test deeming provisions; inclusion of small superannuation accounts in definitions relating to income and assets; operation of income streams rules; and rounding of service pensions and income support supplement payments to the nearest cent.

to: give effect to arrangements for entering into international agreements in relation to the payment of pensions and providing assistance and benefits to eligible persons; authorise the use of funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for those purposes; and align the veterans’ entitlements means test with the social security means test;

Legislative Instruments Act 2003

to make minor and technical consequential amendments;

Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

to extend the period for which the Commonwealth or Australian Federal Police may be considered as a nuclear test participant for the purposes of the Act; and

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

to make minor amendments in relation to a definition and clarifying compensation matters.

to: enable the Repatriation Medical Authority to review one or a number of factors in a Statement of Principles; enable benefits and allowances fixed or calculated by regulations or other legislative instruments to be funded from the Consolidated Revenue Fund; clarify and amend the operation of income streams rules;

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

to correct minor errors and anomalies; and

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004

and

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

in relation to access to specified treatment for certain veterans and dependents.